Sexy Drug (Sequel to Vampires Will Never Hurt You)

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Kellin POV: 

Andy took of his necklace and held it in front of my eyes, swinging it back and forth like a pendulum. "You will submit to the weight of your eyelids. You don't feel anything when you remember what happened to you, " He said. Ben and Katelynne were watching very closely. I felt like a deeper part of myself was awakening, and my eyes shut on their own accord. 

"Now, what happened that night? " Ben asked. 

"I had come back from a tour. I had starved myself on that tour. I couldn't wait for food anymore. No blood tablets left. I ate so many of them that night. Copeland, my sweet little girl. There was no one else left. Katelynne had left, she'd turned two hundred and killed her sons. I couldn't see anything. I was blind. My fangs sank into flesh. I don't know how much I took. It was too much. She wasn't safe. I couldn't take it back in time." 

"And then Copeland died, " Andy said. 

"Copeland died. " 

"You are returning to consciousness. You no longer forget the memories that you just recalled." 

I woke up, and looked around me. "What happened? " 

"You really did, didn't you? You forgot all of that, " Ben asked. 

"I forgot. " 

"It's a mental state that the mind goes into when it suffers serious trama, instead of living with the issue, it just forgets that the issue ever happened. A dangerous coping mechanism. But to Quinn, he really didn't think that anything had happened, " Andy explained. "It happened to Ashely too. When he first became a vampire." 

Katelynne looked down. "I should get going then. Don't be a stranger. " 

"Now you're not getting off the hook that easy, " Ben said, angrily. "I've suffered from your ideas for long enough. You knew that those pills would kill Quinn, and you also knew that that knife was the only thing that could kill Ashley. Now how do you explain that? " 

"Do you know why I've spent the last fifty years in and out of mental hospitals and labs? Because I don't age! And I'm a cannibal, according to humans! And you guys don't deserve to live like the rest of humanity! You're spoiled brats! " 

"And that's why you live in a mental hospital. You don't hurt people just because they don't deal with the exact same shit that you do! " Andy yelled. "You don't think we have been dealing with shit? Ashely and I have to change the name of our band and assume new identities every time that people start to get suspicious. Quinn's been doing heroin, he's addicted to a certain human's blood, and he has self-harm tendencies! Ben's been going crazy because every last vampire that needs  one little favor, because no one can bother to learn alchemy, has been knocking at his door, pleading for their every last wish. Alex gets attacked by vampires daily because he was born different, and he's gay. Remington lost both of his brothers, and no one else even talks to him anymore. And in February Billy celebrated his four hundredth birthday, but no one even bothered to show up because all he does now is scream!" 

Katelynne and the rest of them began bitching around me. It was annoying to listen to. Eventually, I screamed. "THAT'S IT! EVERYONE OUT! GET OUT, STAY OUT! " I practically pushed them out the front door. 

I fell back onto the couch. I hope that one didn't freak Vic out too much, 

Vic POV: 

Throughout most of the meet and greet, all I could think about was Kellin. I was completely out of it, even when people said that our music had saved them. It just didn't feel special right now. I was too worried. Then a very young boy walked up to the table, clutching his mom's hand desperately. He couldn't have been older than six. "Thank you, " He whispered. Tears spilled from his eyes. That's when I saw the bruises and cuts covering his arms. Don't tell me he did those himself. 

I knelt down to his level, and hugged him. "Whatever it was, it must've really sucked. But I'm so glad that you're here tonight." The little boy nodded, and then moved closer to his mother for security. 

"I thank you too, " His mother said, and then she pulled him away from everyone. 

"That, " Tony began, "was life-changing. " 

After the meet and greet, we went back to the bus. We weren't staying at a hotel until the concert after the next one, which was in San Diego. I'd be going home. I hoped to see Kellin there before we went back to continue the tour. I called him up on video chat, and he answered almost instantly. 

"What the hell happened to you?! " I screamed at him. 

"Remember the vampire that attacked you? She came back. But there's a lot about her and everything else that I have to tell you. Vic, I'm a liar. I did kill, once. And it was my own daughter. But you have to understand, I wouldn't let myself remember it. And I wasn't thinking clearly. I couldn't see her. And the vampire, well she and I were together for a time, but she turned into a nightmare when she turned two hundred. And- " Kellin was tearing up, but he began to cry very hard before he said, "and if you want to leave me. Or if you hate me now. That's okay. I hate me too. " 

"Kells, no, no. I don't hate you. And I would never leave you. Yes, you did something very, very wrong. But you understand what you did, and that is very long in the past, right? I'm not going to hold it against you. You were young, and you didn't know what you were doing. It'll be okay darling. Just breathe. " 

But Kellin hang up before I could say anything else. Did I say something wrong? Maybe he just needed some time. I hoped that he just needed some time. Because I wasn't lying. I would never leave him, and I don't want to lose him either.